The quotations of

Anthony Trollope

English novelist of the Victorian period

1815–1882

9 quotes.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 49
- Success
He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
The Warden (1855), Ch. 3
- Character
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 27
- Pride
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
Miss Mackenzie (1865), Ch. 13
- Truth & Lies
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867), Vol. II, ch. 67
- Life & Death
- Love
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
The Duke’s Children (1879), Ch. 66
- Leadership
- Power
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons.
Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 6
- Comedy
- Religion
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.
The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
- Marriage
- Money
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
He Knew He Was Right (1869), Ch. 60
- Good & Evil

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